8.“I stand here today because I am a Jew. To be a Jew is to take on a sacred task: To remember that we were once strangers in a strange land and to treat citizen and stranger alike," Rabbi Esther L. Lederman said.

“This policy of deportations is destroying the bedrock of what makes our congregations and society strong – our families. Our synagogues and churches are made up of families, moms and dads doing the best that they can to raise righteous citizens, decent human beings," she added.

9."The truth is, African-Americans didn’t come here, we were brought here, by a system that dehumanizes and exploits for profit. Today we see our brothers and sisters — undocumented workers — are kept in the shadows, and exploited for cheap labor."

This was said by Rev. Dr. Earl Trent, the chair of Church World Service, who also took on the controversial Secure Communities program that gets the finger prints of people who are apprehended. "Secretary Jeh Johnson says that the Administration wants to fix Secure Communities, but this program is too broken to be fixed, it is beyond repair," he said. "We can’t MEND S-Com, so we must END S-Com.”

10.Nayelly Sandoval, 12, said she wrote a letter to President Obama but received a response that didn't make sense.

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11."A few weeks ago I got his response," she said. "It wasn’t even about my family. It just said, 'Dear student' and had some general stuff about the White House. I don’t want pictures of his dogs. I want my dad back."

"Enforcement reforms" like changing who is a priority to detain and "administrative relief that would expand deferred action," which would create a new group that is protected from the threat of deportation.

15."The clergy firmly believe the president has a moral obligation to stop deportations and that he must act to end the suffering of the undocumented," said Rich Morales, the deportation prevention coordinator at PICO.